Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-24
FIFTEEN TO FOUR.

1 New Haven Badly Beaten-Interest T Base Ball in New Haven Being Killed by Bum Pitchers-McKenna Badly Of Xesterday-Danbury and Bridgeport Win-Leary and Murphy the Battery To-Day.
 It was mora than disgusted crowd which left Hamilton Park yesterday afternoon after witnessing the game between the Hartfords
 and the New Ravens. People began to leave
 after three innings were over.
 It was large crowd that assembled at the
 Park-about nine hundred. It is safe to say
 that at the game here on Wednesday there
 will not be a corporal's guard present. The
 public is not to be fooled and the people do not intend to be imposed on any more. They have put up with a great many defects in the team for the past three weeks but all that has been said about these defects being remedied does not amount to the wind it takes to say them.
 It is certain that the interest in base ball is being gradually killed and it will not be many days, if something is not done, before that interest will be s'deader than a door nail" The time has now come when the people will revolt at certain defects. There has been plenty of opportunity to remedy them all.
 When the game yesterday was ended good share of the audience had left in utter disgust. Calls for ''Leary, Leary, put Leary in the box," were frequently heard.
 The Hartfords had laid another phenome- nal to rest as quietly and as peacefully as though he were babe.
 How much do these phenomenal pitchers cost anyway? The public would be pleased to know. If the New Haven team is to have these phenomenals right along why is not some sharp and shrewd man sent throughout the country to scrape together all such pitch CTS and ship a carload of them to this city? Then when one is knocked out in one inning another will be on hand to put into the box the next inning and so on. Then there would be variety and there would not be any reason why New Haven people should not patronize the games then.
 And there is poor little Weckbecker. Everybody sympathizes with him. It would seem as if there have been several attempts to kill him. He has had good many of these phenomenals to catch, and the way he has stood heroically at his post and stopped wild pitches of every kind has established him prime favorite. It is a fact not known that one of these phenomenals he has caught pounded him in one game. Weckbecker, who has had to do all the head work, would give signs for a certain kind of curve, but he would just as like as not get another kind. There was no knowing where the ball was going to come.
 It is really too bad that the players of the team are blamed because the team is defeat ed simply because there is not good material in the box.
 The less said about yesterdays pitching the letter. The man had not the least con- trol over the ball, sending many to first on 8 base hit on balls. By yesterdays exhibition it seemed miracle how he held the Bridge ports down so we'll on Friday.
 When new pitcher arrives here one i'm. ,o4, ha ,,Jo 1o, Nobody knows where he ever played.
 But of course it is said he is fine pitcher, because he once held the Squedunk Hollow team down to five hits But it seems he was never good enough to be regularly engaged by any club. He never had record. In vens have tried who has had record, and that is Leary.
 One victory on the home grounds in over two weeks. How cheering and consoling it is to think of this record. And that victory from the Danburys
 Friss played his first game of the season yesterday. He promises to be good one. He picks up ball nicely, but his throwing is little wild.
 Troy played his usually excellent game Burns made another magnificent catch in left field, and the flies that Crowley captured again demonstrated the fact that he never gets left when a ball comes anywhere near him. It is question as to whether or not Brill play third base as it should be.
 To see the Hartfords play one cannot help noticing the fine team work that prevails. moves along like clock work. Each player knows each move of another. That team work is entirely lacking in the New Haven club. Manager Troy has to call out to somebody to back up another player when ball is thrown, and then half the time the player does not do it.
 Burns stole bases right along yesterday. He and Troy led the New Ravens at the bat.